Starting your journey in DevOps

Chris Riley: The DevOps culture will come no matter what. It could come with a bloody mess or some kumbaya moment, but it will come on its own as long as organizations focus on automation and releasing better applications sooner.

For that reason, I don't recommend that organizations waste time talking about communication or culture. Instead, I think they should be putting quotas on the number of releases a day, response time to issues, and the percentage of automation. They should make these objectives tied to bonuses and job performance.

If the organization pushes the needle to have more frequent releases and better application quality, then they will figure out the culture, and they'll figure out how to communicate better, because these will all be major barriers.

Some will figure it out via employee attrition, and others after lots of arguments. But at the same time, that same organization would have distorted the...